History & Celebration:
Please celebrate the April Fool Day as one of the most enjoyable and relaxed
day. Please celebrate this day with lots of fun and finally conclude with family
and friends re-union.Now April Fool's Day is traditionally a day to play practical jokes on
others, send people on fool's everyday
jobs, and fool the innocent.
In ancient cultures, like Romans and Hindus, celebrated the New Year's Day on
April 1. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar, the Gregorian
Calendar to replace the previously used old Julian Calendar. According to the
new calendar, the New Year's Day to be celebrated Jan. 1.
But people of France went wrong about this. Either they refused to accept the
new date, or did not learn about it, and continued to celebrate New Year's Day
on April 1. And at the same time, other people began to make fun of these
traditionalists, trying to make "Fool" or trying to trick them into believing
which is not true.
Finally in 1752, Great Britain changed their Calendar to the Gregorian, and
started celebrating 1st of April or April Fool's Day. Now 1st of April is
universally known as "April Fool's Day" and people celebrate with Fun and
Jokes.
Each country celebrates April Fool’s in differently way. In France, the April Fool’s
is called "April Fish". The French fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends’ backs and when some discovers a this
trick, they shout "Poisson
d'Avril"!
In England, they played with you.
In Scotland, the duration of April Fools Day is 48 hours long, and you
are called an "April Gowk", which is another name for a cuckoo bird. The second
day in Scotland’s April Fool's is called "Taily" Day and is dedicated to pranks
involving the buttocks.
In Portugal, April Fool's is celebrated on the Sunday and Monday before Lent.
The conventional trick there is to throw flour at your friends.
In America, they play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on the
first of April. One of the common tricks, is to say someone, "Your shoelace is untied." Even though, the
source is unknown, it’s fun to see
how different countries celebrate this "foolish" holiday.
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